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“Truth is so obscure these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” - Blaise Pascal

Unfortunately, the odds are against us. Lying is inherent in human nature. Even if you point out the facts, most people will be deluded again because the majority drowns everything, especially in an anonymous environment such as the internet.




But what are the facts? WMDs in Iraq and the myriad of other lies our governments throw at us. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me ten thousand times and shame on everyone.


>WMDs in Iraq

Some interesting reading regarding this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...

It turns out that there really were some WMDs after all. I'm not sure they were enough to justify war, but I don't suppose that matters at this stage.


I don’t see any hard evidence there, only speculation on chemical weapons. But maybe I missed it?


There's a bunch of reports (keep scrolling and reading). I'm not sure what you want for 'hard evidence'.

You'll see things like - "Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent" (among others).

As I said, I'm not really sure that justified the war, but they did exist. They also had a bunch of yellowcake and stuff like that.




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